Get a drought year when hay yield is low cows still need to eat.
Cant buy $100 a bale hay and afford to eat myself.
Hard pressed for a cow to eat enough hay to handle a month worth of minus 30 to minus 40 weather without loosing some condition.
Feeding some grain will help get them through the weather.
Economics come into play.
You can swath and bale a mature oat crop and get some nice 1800 lb bales that will cost you less than the lighter $100 hay bales will.
Depending on what the feed test results are typically I can shred an oat bale on top of a shredded barley straw bale and end up with a good ration.
2 days of feed for our cows;
-2 1250 lb hay bales
-3 900 lb barley straw bales
-3 1800 lb Oat bales
In the real cold weather I back the straw down to 2 bales and up the oat bales to 4.
Feed test results and a good cattle nutrition calculator program and you can work whatever feed available to you into an adequate economical ration to keep the girls is shape for calving.
It also calculates what adjustments need to be made to the minerals to balance everything out.
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